Life in a Southern Forest

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Idiodes apicata (Bracken Moth), Geometridae

Workbook


Life History studies: raising caterpillars

Collected 8th February, 2019 on bracken.

10/2/19: eating well, on bracken

11/2/19

15/2/19

3/3/19: newly eclosed

the lack of white stripe between the antennae distinguishes this species from the otherwise very similar Idiodes sicculoides


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